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...Office of Student Placement will present three men prominent in the field of industry. The speakers are: Victor Borella, vice-president in charge of operations of Rockefeller Center; Earl Newsom, public relations council for Ford Motor Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; and Prescott H. Voss, purchasing agent for the University...
Shipbuilding, the other half of Hamburg's prosperity, was also flattened by the war. The mammoth Blohm & Voss shipyards were carted away as reparations after 1945. Today the remaining yards have a capacity of 70,000 tons (those of all other German ports combined, 60,000 tons), but there is little solid business...
...French architect collected a few scraps on the life of La Tour, but could find none of his paintings. It was not until 50 years later that a German scholar named Hermann Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations of declining Venice were equally in demand. But for nostalgic elegance Pannini's Roman Views rivaled anything Venice could produce. Without Pannini, wrote art critic Herman Voss, "a branch of art which is charming in itself would have been deprived of real perfection...
Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "What is the Best Solution to the Palestine Problem?" Speakers: Carl Herman Voss, executive secretary of the Christian Council on Palestine; Cecil Hourani, secretary of the Arab Office; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, ex-president of the Zionist Organization of America; Mrs. Bedia Afnan, former Iraq educator...